This research guide relays some basic information on library and information resources pertaining to the concerns of this department, as provided by University Libraries and/or sites on the World Wide Web.

1. To Shelf-Browse for Books (using main Library of Congress Subject Divisions)

Books on subjects associated with this field are shelved under the call number ranges listed below. Use TOPCAT to search for specific items in the collection, or more narrowly-defined subjects.

Aesthetics (BH, N61-N79) -------- Causation (BD530-BD595) -------- Chance (BC141) -------- Consciousness (B105.C477) -------- Cosmology (BD493-BD708) -------- Death (BD443.8-BD445) -------- Egoism (BJ1474) -------- Empiricism (B816) -------- Enlightenment (B802, B2621) -------- Ethics (BJ1-BJ1800) -------- Existentialism (B819) -------- Femininity (Philosophy) (BD450) -------- Feminist theory (HQ1190) -------- Free will and determinism (BF620-BF628, BJ1460-BJ1468.5) -------- Good and evil (BJ1400-BJ1408.5) -------- Hedonism (B279, BJ1491) -------- Humanism (B778, B821) -------- Idealism (B823) -------- Ideology (B823.3, HM641) -------- Imagination (Philosophy) (BH301.I53) -------- Immortality (Philosophy) (BD419-BD423) -------- Jurisprudence (K230-K474) -------- Justice (JC578, K230-K474) -------- Knowledge, Theory of (BD150-BD240) -------- Law--Philosophy (K230-K474) -------- Liberty (JC585-JC599) -------- Logic (BC1-BC199) -------- Logical Positivism (B824) ----- Mathematics--Philosophy (QA8-QA10.4) -------- Metaphysics (BD, QC6) -------- Mind and body (BF150-BF172) -------- Natural Law (K400-K474) -------- Ontology (BD300-BD444) -------- Optimism (B829, BF698.35.O57, BJ1477) -------- Perspective (Philosophy) (B829, BF698.35.P49, BJ1477) -------- Pessimism (B829, BF698.35.P49, BJ1477) -------- Phenomenology (B829.5) -------- Philosophy and science (B67) -------- Philosophy of mind (BD418) -------- Philosophy--History (B69-B99) -------- Pluralism (BD394) -------- Positivism (B831, B2200-B2249) -------- Possibility (BC199.P7) -------- Pragmatics (B831.5, P99.4.P72) -------- Pragmatism (B832, B945.J23-.J24) -------- Property (HB701-HB751) -------- Rationalism (B833, BD181, BL2700-BL2790) -------- Realism (B835, Q175.32.R42) -------- Reality (BD331, QC6.4.R42) -------- Religion--Philosophy (BL57-BL185) -------- Science--Philosophy (Q171-Q175) -------- Technology--Philosophy (T14) -------- Truth (BD150-BD171, BT50) -------- Utilitarianism (B843) -------- Will (BJ1460-BJ1468)

2. To Find Journal and Magazine Articles (using indexing/abstracting/full-text services)

The following services are recommended for use by first-year students and nonmajors:

• Philosopher's Index (EBSCOhost): The basic tool for finding articles about philosophy and ethics.
• Philosopher's Index—A Retrospective Index to U.S. Publications from 1940 (REF Z 7127 .P474): This material is not duplicated in the Philosopher's Index.
• Humanities Index: A paper version is available at REF PER/IND AI3 .H85.
• Academic Search Premier and MasterFILE Premier: These two all-subject WWW-based services (they are part of the EBSCOhost system) feature indexing and abstracting of many journals and magazines WKU Libraries receives in hardcopy, plus a large selection of articles in full-text.
• Google Scholar: A free Web-based Google service that restricts searches to the scholarly literature. Now features linking to full-text of articles held by WKU.

The following services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers:

• America: History and Life (EBSCOhost): Since 1964, the premiere database covering the history of the United States and Canada. Database indexes 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to articles, the database provides citations of book and media reviews annually as well as abstracts of dissertations.
• Art and Humanities Citation Index (AHSearch): FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes over 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals, 1980 to present.
• ArticleFirst: FirstSearch database available to faculty and graduate students (and to undergraduate students by special permission). Indexes almost 13,000 journals and magazines from 1990 onward, including some ninety percent of the ones University Libraries carries in hardcopy.
• Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost): Since 1954, the premiere database covering history since 1450 (excluding Canada and the United States). In addition to articles includes 3,000 citations annually to useful historical books reviewed by leading historical journals and citations to abstracts of dissertations.
• JSTOR: Provides the full text/full image web access of the complete archival collections of a large number of journals, up to the most recent three to five years.
• Project Muse: "Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics."
• PerAbs: Periodical abstracts from general and academic journals (FirstSearch database accessible to graduate students and faculty, and to undergraduates by special permission).
• Sociological Abstracts (CSA): Provides abstracting of the sociological and anthropological literature from 1963 onward.
• WilsonSelectPlus: Full-text articles in science, humanities, education and business (FirstSearch database accessible to graduate students and faculty, and to undergraduates by special permission).
• Art Index (REF PER/IND NX 1 .A12 A7x) --Includes articles on Aesthetics
• Biomedical ethics--In addition to other resources, use health indexes such as:
  • Bioethics Information Retrieval Project http://www.georgetown.edu/research/nrcbl/ir/bioline.htm
  • CINAHL/Pre-CINAHL Full Text: These databases are devoted to the fields of nursing and allied health. Available via EBSCOhost.
  • MEDLINE: This EBSCOhost-based database provides abstracting of the primary research literature.
  • PsycINFO (EBSCOhost): Provides indexing and abstracts for over one million articles in 1,500 journals, plus dissertations, books and book chapters, from 1887 to the present.

The following printed journal indexing services are recommended for use by advanced students and researchers. These items are located in the Reference Periodical Index portion of the Reference Room (first floor of Helm):

• Humanities Index: As described above.
• Index Islamicus (Ref PER/IND BP161.2 .I5x)
• International Bibliography series
  • International bibliography of anthropology
  • International bibliography of economics
  • International bibliography of political science
  • International bibliography of social and cultural anthropology
  • International bibliography of sociology
  • International bibliography of the social sciences
• Jurisprudence, property, liberty, legal philosophy, and Natural Rights--In addition to other resources, use:
  • Index to Legal Periodicals (REF PER/IND K9 .N32)
• International Political Science Abstracts (REF PER/IND JA 36 .I5)
• Journal of Economic Literature (REF PER/IND HB 1 .J6)
• L'annee Pilologique (REF PER/INDZ 7016 .M35A) Published in France, this annual abstracting guide contains materials on Philosophy of Religion. Some are in French and some are in English.
• Philosopher's Index: As described above.
• Philosopher's Index—A Retrospective Index to U.S. Publications from 1940: As described above.
• Religion Index One (REF PER/IND BL 1 .R4x)
• Religious and Theological Abstracts (REF PER/IND BR 1 .R286)

Special resource:  TDNet Electronic Journal Finder [use to access Libraries' electronic journals, magazines, and newspapers, as well as some indexes and databases containing full-text articles; includes a comprehensive A-Z listing of titles]

3. Monographic Reference Works in Helm Library

The following are recommended for use:

• Research Guide to Philosophy / Terence N. Tice and Thomas P. Slavens (MAIN LIBRARY B52 .T5 1983)
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Networked CD-ROM and REF B51 .R68 1998)
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REF B 41 .E5)
• Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics (REF BJ 63 .E45 1992)
• Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (REF BL 31 .E5 1955x)
• Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (REF BH 56 .E53 1998)
• Encyclopedia of Religion (REF BL 31 .E46 1997)
• Oxford Companion to Philosophy (REF B51 .O94 1995)
• The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (REF B41 .C35 1995)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (REF B41 .B53 1994)
• Dictionary of Logical Terms and Symbols (REF QA9 .G698)

4. Department of Philosophy & Religion Faculty

Department of Philosophy & Religion Faculty: http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/AHSS/Philosophy/

5. Related Professional Societies (for professional news, careers/jobs, memberships, etc.)

• American Indian Philosophy Association http://www.csub.edu/~awaters/aipa/aipa.html
• American Society for Bioethics and Humanities http://www.asbh.org/
• American Association of Philosophy Teachers http://aapt-online.dhs.org/aapt.html
• American Philosophical Association http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/index.html
• American Philosophical Practitioners Association http://www.appa.edu/
• Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA) http://www.primr.org/membership/overview.html
• Canadian Philosophical Association http://www.acpcpa.ca/framee.htm
• Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science http://www.psych.yorku.ca/orgs/cshps/
• History of Economics Society http://www.eh.net/HE/HisEcSoc/
• International Association for Environmental Philosophy http://www.environmentalphilosophy.org/
• International Association of Women Philosophers http://www.bu.edu/wcp/IAPH/
• International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy http://www_ivr.cirfid.unibo.it/ivr/
• International Association for Greek Philosophy (IAGP) http://www.hri.org/iagp/
• International Society for Intellectual History http://www.history.upenn.edu/isih/
• Philosophy of Education Society http://cuip.net/pes/
• Philosophy of Science Association http://philosophy.wisc.edu/PSA/Default.htm
• Semiotic Society of America http://www.iupui.edu/~icon/semiotic.htm
• Society for Ethics http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/corlett/se.html
• Society for Exact Philosophy http://web.phil.ufl.edu/SEP/index.html
• Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy http://www.american-philosophy.org/
• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy http://www.spep.org/
• Society for Philosophy and Technology http://www.spt.org/
• Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World http://www.phil.stmarytx.edu/SPCWhm/
• Society for Women in Philosophy http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/SWIP/
• Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education http://www.sapere.net/
• Society of Christian Philosophers http://www.siu.edu/~scp/
• Templeton Foundation http://www.templeton.org/
• Tennessee Philosophical Association http://www.utm.edu/research/tpa/tpa.htm

6. Web Sites Recommended by Department of Philosophy & Religion Faculty

• Academic Info Philosophy Resources http://www.academicinfo.net/phil.html
• American Philosophical Association Web Resources http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/resources/
• Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base http://www.erraticimpact.com/
• Guide to Philosophy on the Internet http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/philinks.htm
• Guidebook for Publishing Philosophy: Journals http://sophia.smith.edu/~jmoulton/guidebook/jcontent.htm
  A subject index to journals in philosophy and related fields.
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/
• Philosophy Around the Web http://users.ox.ac.uk/%7Eworc0337/phil_index.html
• Philosophy in Cyberspace http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~dey/phil/
• Philosophy Pages [gateway for Western philosophical tradition] http://www.philosophypages.com/
• RefDesk.com Facts Encyclopedia Philosophy Resources http://www.refdesk.com/philos.html
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
• Writing Philosophy Papers: A Student Guide (Oregon State University) http://oregonstate.edu/dept/philosophy/resources/resources/guidestuff/Guide.html
• Student Publication Opportunities (Dr. Michael Seidler) http://www.msc.wku.edu/~michael.seidler/studpub.htm
• VoS: Voice of the Shuttle: Philosophy [links] http://vos.ucsb.edu/browse.asp?id=2724
• The WWW Virtual Library: Philosophy http://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/VL/

Other Sites

• Academic Info Ancient Philosophy http://www.academicinfo.net/philancient.html
• African Philosophy Resources http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/
• Applied Ethics Resources on WWW http://ethicsweb.ca/resources/
• Catholic Encyclopedia http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
• Chinese Literature Classics http://www.chinapage.com/classic1.html
• Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict
• Epistemelinks http://www.epistemelinks.com/
• EServer http://eserver.org/philosophy/
• Ethics Collection: The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University http://www.scu.edu/ethics/
• Ethics Update http://ethics.acusd.edu/index.html
• Greek Philosophy Archive http://graduate.gradsch.uga.edu/archive/Greek.html
  Contains works by Plato and Aristotle, Epictetus' Discourses, Plotinus' Enneads, and the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
• Indian Philosophy and Religion: A Launch-pad to India's Spiritual Treasure http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1863/index.html
  In addition to traditional schools and religious texts, this site also links to modern schools of thought.
• Institute for Creation Research http://www.icr.org/
• Intelligent Design Network, Inc. http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/
• The Internet Classics Archive [contains many classics works on Philosophy] http://classics.mit.edu/
• Islamic Philosophy Online http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/
• Dr. Jan Garrett's Ethics Links http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/el/
  Created by Dr. Jan Garrett in the WKU Philosophy Department.
• Legal Essays indexed by subject: Jurisprudence http://www.law.cam.ac.uk/docs/view.php?doc=220
• Moksha Journal http://www.santosha.com/moksha/
  This journal was founded in 1984 for the purpose of publishing essays and poetry pertaining to the concept of Moksha, defined by Monier-Williams as "liberation, release." Moksha reflects a multiplicity of perspectives, including works pertaining to Yoga, various schools of Buddhism, Sufism, Eastern and Western philosophy, meditation, and mystical Christianity.
• Paideia Project Online [conference paper texts] http://www.bu.edu/wcp/PaidArch.html
• Perseus Digital Libarary http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
• The Philosopher's Web Magazine Online http://www.philosophers.co.uk/
• PhilSci Archive [preprints in the philosophy of science] http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/
• Religious Laws http://www.lawsofwisdom.com/LawsofWisdom/index.html
• The Stoic Place http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/stoa/
  A site on Stoicism maintained by Dr. Jan Garrett in the WKU Philosophy Department.
• The University of Chicago Philosophy Project [discussion forum] http://csmaclab-www.uchicago.edu/philosophyProject/philos.html

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